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De 33:11 Bless all his skills, O LORD, and be pleased with the work of his hands. Smite the loins of those who rise up against him; strike his foes till they rise no more."
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LONGMONT — Longmont will interview four assistant city manager candidates next week, including one from the same Texas city that City Manager Harold Dominguez came from.
The four are competing to be Longmont's first "external" assistant city manager, charged with overseeing economic development and services that interact directly with the public. That includes areas such as the airport, the senior center, the library and the museum.
The "internal" assistant city manager, Sandi Seader, began her position in August.
A total of 182 people applied for the job, more than twice the number that applied for Longmont's city manager job last year. Chief human resources officer Bobby King said the large pool was largely due to Longmont's reputation, the fact that assistant manager jobs don't come open very often, and Dominguez's own standing.
"People know of him as a solid city manager," King said. "I think people want to be on his team. I think a lot of it is Harold Dominguez."
The candidates are:
Laura Fitzpatrick, the assistant city manager of Rio Rancho, N.M., population 87,521. She has held her current position since 2008; prior to that she was assistant to the city manager of Troy, Mich. (2001 to 2005) and then deputy city manager of Manassas Park, Va. (2005 to 2008).
Shawn Lewis, director of community and economic development for San Angelo, Texas, population 93,200. Lewis has worked at San Angelo since 2006 — two years after Dominguez became city manager there — and gained his current position in 2010. He was previously San Angelo's director of planning (2006 to 2007) and director of development services (2007 to 2010). Lewis has spent his entire career in Texas, working as an assistant to the city manager of Abilene (1999 to 2000), main street manager for Huntsville (2001-2003) and both business development coordinator and old town development coordinator for Lewisville (2003 to 2006).
Adam Miles, city manager of Hewitt, Texas, population 13,368. He has been city manager since 2008. He began his career as a disaster assistance employee for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (1996 to 1997) before working for Cleburne, Texas, as a planning and zoning project coordinator (1997 to 2000), assistant to the city manager (2000 to 2002) and assistant city manager (2002 to 2008). He briefly left the town for five months in 2000 to be a planner in North Richland Hills, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth.
Angela Montgomery, the former deputy city manager of East Point, Ga., population 33,712. Montgomery took the position in 2010 — East Point's first black deputy manager — and was briefly interim city manager after East Point's city council terminated the contact of Crandall Jones in December 2011. Her 20-year career began in Dayton, Ohio, where she was director of race relations for the Greater Dayton Christian Council (1992 to 1993), assistant housing manager for the Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority (1994 to 1996), minority business assistance program coordinator (1996 to 1999), community development analyst (1999 to 2001) and financial services supervisor (2001 to 2005), as well as the acting revenue and taxation division manager (2003 to 2004). She then moved to Richmond, Va., as assistant to the chief administrative officer (2005 to 2006) and council policy analyst (2007 to 2009), before becoming assistant to the city manager of Dunedin, Fla. (2009 to 2010).
Residents can meet the four candidates at a reception starting 4 p.m. Monday in the civic center, 350 Kimbark St. The reception will run until 5 p.m. and will not include a question-and-answer session.
The four will be interviewed Monday and Tuesday.
The hire will be made by Dominguez; King said the a decision will be made late next week, after which the city will enter negotiations. The final hire may take weeks, King said.
Whoever gets the job will start no sooner than January.
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A judge upheld safety violations against SeaWorld and said there should be better measures, like physical barriers, to protect trainers. Jack Hanna and David Kirby debate the treatment of killer whales in captivity.
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Hi, Anderson. I am torn. I have enjoyed the the gorgeous Orca at Sea World. And, gone to see the marine life in and around Good Friday Harbor. You can not compare the orca breaching, . . in the ocean to a pool, no matter what size. The ocean is magnificent, and the orca belongs there, truly. Nevertheless, I think for safety, research, and industry .. that perhaps you could keep them for a much shorter time, and then release them back to their pod. Also, I like the idea of more information, as someone mentioned above. Maybe, Ford, Hoyt, or Ellis could be interviewed as they have done much research with them over the years. Thanks!
I was happy to see the OSHA v SeaWorld ruling covered by CNN. As more is becoming known about the intelligence and social interaction of cetaceans, it's becoming increasingly clear that crimes are being committed against these animals strictly for the sake of making money. There's no denying dolphins and whales display fascinating charisma in captivity, but once you realize how completely unnatural and inhumane their painfully restrictive environment is, it becomes impossible to think of attending such a "show" again.
Jack Hanna has made his mark (and a very long career) by being a spokesperson for animals in captivity. David Kirby, on the other hand, is a well-respected investigative journalist who delves into both sides of the issues. It was disappointing that Jack Hanna had time to spout his well-worn "animals as education" speech, but David Kirby didn't seem to get the same amount of time. Thankfully, he did manage to make a most important point: Killer whales should not be held in captivity for our entertainment.
I believe more needs to be said about captivity. It is obvious that Jack Hannah is a paid spokesperson for SeaWorld. He has made a living 'entertaining' us with animals of all types on any show that will have him on. I was appauled at his defending the police officers who shot all of the animals in Ohio last year. He continues to take the stand that zoos, circuses, abusement parks etc, are good places to go to for 'education'. I would like to see David Kirby on your show again without Jack Hannah. Mr Kirby has written a book (Death at SeaWorld) his knowledge of these whales and the effects of captivity on them is something that more people need to hear about. SeaWorld has tried to stop the book from being published, why? what do they DON'T want us to know??
Thank you so much for having Mr David Kirby on your show – he seemed very reasonable and informed – I would have liked to heard more but Mr. Hannah kept talking! Anyway, I learned alot about these whales on your show and I am going to look for this book. It is wrong to keep such smart animals in swimming pools. Thanks Anderson, great show!
They are called killer whales as they are apex predator and not for any other reason that people may think. It is just a name. First of all they are dolphins family and not whales. Killer whales in captivity have killed at least 3 persons and injured many. In the wild, there is not 1 recorded and documented attack to a human by a killer whale. What does this say to you?
Why do these things get so little space on media i still wonder. With 24 hours a day news i hear most of the time about gossip! The plenet and its health and its inhabitants are something deserving a better coverage dont you think? Killer whales: amazing wonderful creatures who deserve to be in the wild. Even a 4 year kid when given the real facts would agree they are unsuitable in any way! Their only fault is that poor souls they are too intelligent! . And why can t we just say that they are only needed by marine parks to bring in the money ? People has had enough , especially people who had the time to spend few hours over the internet and read about the facts, about how these whales were captured in penn cove in the 70, the way they are living in those marine parks and the way they should leave instead. Enough is enough. We are better than that.
Why everyone call them killer whales? They are animals just like a lion or a tiger, they also kill, but anyone said killer lion.
They kill because they need to eat.
All the whales should be in the ocean, and dolphins too. Imagine the humans living in a small apartment everday of their life, is crazy!! Now think on the whales, is the same.
I never understood why they put people in the same basin as Killerwhales. Hello people! I'm not a rocket scientist, but they are called KILLER whales for a reason I suppose.
The name Killer whale is thought to be a corruption of Whale Killer which was coined by whalers in the 19th Century after observing ORCAs (the proper designation) hunt and kill other whales. They hunt sea-life for food, not for fun!
Thank you for covering the OSHA v. SeaWorld ruling. It was a pleasure to see David Kirby, a well-respected journalist, on the show. I would love to hear more from him on this topic and for your program to cover the ethics and science of captivity in more depth.
Jack Hanna said it best, "If you look at the other 176 million people that went to zoos and aquariums last year or the billions of people that went to Seaworld, I think they will tell you what they want to see." This is about the selfishness of humans. This is about imprisoning animals for the entertainment of humans. Jack Hanna also uses animals to his own ends, and makes a living off of them. His respect for wildlife only goes as far as it puts money in his wallet. The behavior these magnificent creatures demonstrate in captivity is of no use for scientific research because it does not mimic their behavior in the wild. In fact, many times if you go to an aquarium and observe dolphins you will see them laying in a corner as if they have been sent to a time out. This never happens in the wild and one can only imagine what a large Orca must feel like being stuck in a small pool. These are incredibly intelligent creatures that have been imprisoned and forced to do circus tricks for food. It is one thing to rescue a sick animal from the wild, rehabilitate it, and release it; but it is quite another to capture these beautiful creatures and imprison them so we can line our pockets with money. Mr. Hanna seems to think that we need to do this "research" to save the orca's from extinction. What would save them from extinction is to stop hunting them, and stop polluting the oceans. WE are the cause of the extinction of species today.
Hear, hear, Everett. I cannot believe some of the comments made by Jack Hanna. Trying to make a proper scientific study of orca or other cetacean and pinniped behaviour in captivity is like studying people in prison and thinking that the results reflect normal human behaviour. In the wild, orcas and dolphins don't 'log' at the surface for hours on end, don't eat dead fish and are free to roam and socialise within large family and social groups. What worth can be put on the study of these creatures in captivity?
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Happy B'day to you. Hope you have a wonderful day – whow ! 45 years of tremendous career achievements. Hope I was in your shoes....jeeessseeee....
Regards – Miriam
Whales are self-aware... Keeping them in captivity is torture!!!! I will NEVER darken the dorrs of seaworld and will urge everyone I know to boycott seaworld!!!!!!
What was with Jack Hannah? He sounded almost maniacal. Hoping you will consider having David Kirby back on for some more reasonable analysis. SeaWorld's history with its cetaceans has been swept under the carpet long enough. They are no longer the experts, in fact they completely gloss over any outside POVs that do not concur with their philosophy. Just examine their breeding program, it's shocking. Why do we continue to ignore this in the media?? SeaWorld does not lead the way in cetacean knowledge any more.
Mr. Hanna may have spent some time with wild killer whales, but I studied them for years. They do not belong in captivity.
They should NOT be there – Period! Simply used and abused for people's fleeting moment of 'entertainment'. Orcas come from very sophisticated family groups, yet are torn from them to live sad and isolated lives in basically a minuscule jail cell. They have been known to travel over 100 miles in a day when living in the open ocean, yet are regulated to swim in tight circles in these prisons
Captivity is the word, which simply means it is wrong and immoral to go and capture an animal, separate it from its family and take its freedom away to amuse stupid tourists who don't see beyond the show what these animals go through. Any creature on Earth will suffer from lack of freedom, they are not different from us, I wish all these water amusement parks or any zoos would stop exploiting wildlife for money. IT IS WRONG. And those who defend these parks by saying they save and protect the animals is BS, I agree with saving endangered species but it is completely different to jail animals and force them to do tricks for food for human entertainment.
Have to thank the judge on this one. These animals should never be kept in captivity. It is cruel and unusal punishment
. Although it is sad when human trainers are injured or killed it is not surprising. Whan you ask an animal used to roaming freely in the ocean to basically live in a closet you have to expect violent behavior and general unhappiness. It is time for the greed to go and the wellbeing of both the animals and their human keepers to be the most important. At the very minimum release the anmals into seapens and end the horrible pool captivity for entertainment. It is just WRONG!!!!
Jack Hanna did not give David Kirby enough time to speak....however David got the last and CORRECT statement in, and that is that the research has been done, and killer whales DO NOT BELONG IN POOLS!
Hi Anderson, I caught the tail end of your report about Sea World and just wanted to make this comment. I think Jack Hanna is a good man and has done tremendous amount of good to educate our society however I think he is incorrect about his assessment about the Killer Whales "not suffering", yes Sea World provides good care of these animals by providing them with a clean cages and plenty of food and exercise but I do think that they have to suffer mentally because Killer Whales mate for life and stay with their pod for life so to take them away from their family is causing mental suffering. The fact that they migrate 1000s of miles per year in the wild but have to swim in a circle in captivity is suffering.
Take the case of the two dolphins that were released in Turkey last month after being in captivity for over 6 years once they figured out they were free they took off for their old fishing grounds they instinctively knew which way to swim and arrived at their "home town" if you will in record time so these animals wanted to be back home and no doubt are looking for their family. Please see Bornfree.com for more info on these two dolphins its a remarkable story and truly makes you think about the animals at Sea World and what their daily thoughts are....maybe to be free after all dolphins are one of the smartest animals in the sea and Killer WHales are in the dolphin family.
Americans travel more these days then any other time with over 720 million airline travelers per year I personally think that if a family can afford to go to Sea World for the week they can afford to go to alaska or other parts of the world that killer whales travel and see them in their own habitant vs in a cage at Sea World. Times are changing and I think it is high time that these Killer whales, dolphins and other animals caged at Sea World are released to their true environment and have freedom just like we do.
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Having worked on this exhibition since I first started in the American Art department in 2006, I write with mixed emotions that American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 will finally be coming to a close this weekend. Not only has it been great to see so many of these iconic works in Los Angeles, but every time I go through the exhibition I have the opportunity to take a look and really contemplate the events the artists depicted at the time the work was created. A particular favorite of mine is Winslow Homer's Eagle Head, Rochester, Massachusetts (1870):
In the foreground Homer depicts three women who have emerged from the shore. Two are depicted with their legs revealed, while the middle figure stands with her back to the viewer. After the Civil War, Winslow Homer's works that featured women tended to evoke a sentimental quality, and in a sense a throwback to traditional values (if you get a chance to see the show, see Homer's Croquet Scene (1866) next to Eagle Head).
Yet this work, while depicting three young ladies enjoying a day at the seashore, was reproduced quite differently. You can see the difference in the Brooklyn Museum of Art's engraving of Homer's High Tide (1870).
Instead of revealing bare legs, the skirt of the young woman wringing out her dress now shows her garment gathered past her ankles. Also to the left of the canvas, where once a seemingly harmless dog stood with a somewhat inappropriate upward gaze, now lies the young woman's bathing cap.
Eagle Head, Rochester, Massachusetts is only one of the numerous paintings in American Stories that pose the question of the United States' transformation to a modern audience. A year before this work was made in 1870, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Women Suffrage Association, which would eventually merge in the 1890s with the American Women Suffrage Association. While women would not gain their right to vote until fifty years later, in 1920, this painting and its censored reproduction thus reflected the ongoing issue of women's rights.
If you do get a chance this weekend to see American Stories, I hope you'll take a moment to look at the works, and see the depictions and stories of the past events that ultimately developed our nation—stories that even for modern audiences still strike a resonant chord to this day.
While I'm sad to see this exhibition go, I look forward to another exhibition the American Art department has been working on which will open this summer: Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins.


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UL Sets Standards for Indoor Air QualityHow do we regulate the amounts of indoor air pollutants that are allowed to build up in the houses we live in? The answer is: We don't. But because of pressure from communities and environment groups concerned with rising rates of asthma and sick building problems, Underwriters' Laboratories' Environmental and Public Health Council is stepping in to fill the vacuum by developing a new standard: UL 2117 Standards for Indoor Air Emissions of Equipment, Furnishings, Products, and Floor, Wall and Ceiling Treatments.
UL has put together a technical committee with three workgroups consisting of experts in the fields that will be affected by the new standard. The goal is to develop standardized testing methods by which equipment; furnishings; products; and floor, wall, and ceiling treatments used indoors can be evaluated for their potential impacts on indoor air quality and human health. The standards will affect textiles (such as fabric and carpets), paints, adhesives and coatings, construction materials, heating and air conditioning equipment, indoor air-cleaning materials, office equipment, vacuum cleaners, microwaves, furniture, cleaning products, and insecticides.
How will the standards affect contractors? This is a voluntary standard, stresses UL's executive liason for health and environment, George Kupfer. Some communities and regulators will probably adopt the standard into regulations, he says, but others may not. If communities reference this standard in their local regulations, people who design, build, and furnish homes will have to use equipment and products that are certified to the standard.
The first section of the standard, which will lay out the general guidelines, will come into effect in early 2000, after approval by UL's standards committees and engineering council and by the American National Standards Institute. The entire standard will be completed within four to five years.
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The Sturgis Area Community Foundation recently announced the 2013 Athletic Camp Award recipients. More than 20 students received camp awards totaling $3,905. The awards are made possible through foundation funds dedicated to assisting young people in their athletic development. Left, the Don Gage Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Cloie LaRoy, Breanna Wheeler and Hannah Bronsteter. Missing is Harmony Groves. Right, the Ernest Schaeffer Memorial Scholarship went to Kaylynn Cline.


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CEO says L&M strategy is to contract and expand
For Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, the riskiest strategy would be to hunker down and maintain the status quo, rather than embark on new initiatives like the Dana-Farber Cancer Center under construction in Waterford or the pending acquisition of The Westerly Hospital.
If it took the "do nothing" path into the future, Bruce Cummings, L&M president and chief executive officer said Tuesday, the 100-year-old nonprofit would be operating in the red in just a few years, ending the financial stability and positive operating margins it has enjoyed for years.
That's why, Cummings said in a meeting with The Day's editorial board, L&M must expand into new areas even as it lays off employees and seeks to cut costs internally. What might seem like a contradictory strategies - expanding while contracting, making new investments while cutting costs - is actually the best recipe for the hospital to survive and thrive into the future, he said.
The new cancer center and the acquisition of Westerly Hospital, along with bringing the surgery department back to full physician staffing, promise to bring new revenues to L&M. But the hospital also must continue to find new ways to operate more efficiently and economically, Cummings said.
"The most conservative strategy is the one that's the most dangerous," he said. "Westerly Hospital and the cancer center are an example of judicious growth strategies. If we weren't doing those things, our future would be far more ominous."
Last week, the hospital, one of the region's largest employers, announced layoffs of 22 of its 2,500 workers and the elimination of seven vacant positions. More than a dozen other hospitals nationwide announced layoffs this fall as they, too, sought to cut costs to adapt to flat or declining Medicare and private insurance reimbursements, increasing scrutiny by regulators over allowable charges, rising employee benefit costs, and multiple other factors all converging into what Cummings called a "perfect storm."
The layoffs were necessary, he said, to achieve the L&M board's mandate that the hospital maintain at least a 3 percent margin of revenues over expenses for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Cost-cutting moves closed about half of the $3.2 million gap between projected expenses and revenues needed to meet the 3 percent margin, Cummings said. Savings achieved through the layoffs made up the rest.
L&M's annual revenues are about $320 million.
"There's a new revenue reality for hospitals," he said. "We're projecting the hospital will have to reduce its cost structure by 10 percent over the next five years. That's the new normal, not just for L&M, but for hospitals in general."
By a less optimistic analysis, he noted, hospitals are facing a 15 percent to 20 percent revenue loss over the next five years.
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By the time the $69 million acquisition of The Westerly Hospital is complete early in 2013, Cummings said, the once financially troubled Rhode Island hospital is expected to be operating in the black thanks to the oversight of Special Master Mark Russo throughout the receivership process.
Shedding Westerly Hospital's pension obligations and restructuring accounting and billing procedures were key. Even though L&M will be borrowing funds for the purchase, Cummings said, the net effect on the hospital will be "cash positive." Adding Westerly Hospital to the L&M network, he said, not only will expand its market but also will create opportunities for efficiencies in eliminating duplication of some services and streamlining administrative costs.
The $34.5 million cancer center, too, will be a net gain for L&M, he said. Based on the experience of other Dana-Farber affiliates, he said, it is expected to significantly increase the number of cancer patients at L&M.
"People have been leaving this area for cancer treatment," Cummings said. "This stops the outward migration, and it will draw in modest numbers of people from outside our primary service area."
In response to a question about whether the salary levels of the hospital's top administrators are justified given the current scenario, Cummings said those amounts are set by the hospital board to be in line with the industry and similar size institutions.
According to L&M's 2011 IRS filings, Cummings' annual salary is $654,172, plus $48,240 in benefits and other compensation. At The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, a slightly smaller institution with 233 beds compared to L&M's 256, President and CEO David Whitehead is paid $533,927, plus $40,155 in benefits. The 248-bed Middlesex Hospital, meanwhile, pays its chief executive $722,515, plus $181,489 in benefits.
"I don't set my salary, nor do I for the vice presidents," Cummings said. "The board's compensation philosophy is to pay at market rates for all positions, and the board uses outside compensation counsel to advise."
The next decade, he said, promises to be a time when L&M will have to reinvent itself continually, he said. No additional layoffs are pending, he said, but he can't rule out more in the future. Complacency, he said, is not a realistic option as declining revenue trends now dominating health care are on track to get even stronger.
"We're going to have to constantly be looking at whether we can continue to provide the same services," he said.


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Now in its sixth year, the Pwn2Own contest at the same CanSecWest conference awards valuable prizes to those who remotely commandeer computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in fully patched browsers and other Internet software. At last year's competition, Internet Explorer and Safari were both toppled but no one even attempted an exploit against Chrome (despite Google offering an additional $20,000 beyond the $15,000 provided by contest organizer Tipping Point).
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Measuring Leakage in Multifamily Buildings
Controlling the flow of air through the exterior building enclosure is critical. But controlling the flow of air between suites and common spaces within the building is also important.
September 03, 2007
A version of this article appears in the September/October 2007 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
LEED requirements are in their infancy for multifamily buildings, but there appears to be a lot of interest in achieving LEED certification among multifamily building owners. Currently, the maximum exterior envelope leakage must be 5 ACH, or less, at 50 Pa of pressure. You calculate this value by taking the CFM at 50 Pa, multiplying it by 60, and dividing that by the volume of the building in cubic feet. A 20-unit apartment building will have a volume of about 200,000 cubic feet. If the CFM at 50 Pa is 16,500, the ACH will be 5 and a single point is awarded under the LEED system. An ACH of 3.5 yields two points in the LEED system, and 2 ACH gets three points.
Controlling the flow of air through the exterior building enclosure is critical to reduce heat loss and heat gain and to minimize moisture-related problems. But controlling the flow of air between suites and common spaces within the building is also important. Anyone who has ever lived in an apartment building knows the unpleasantness of involuntarily smelling what the neighbor two floors below is cooking for dinner or smoking after dinner, and of hearing all about the neighbors' marriage problems. And controlling the air flow within a building doesn't just control sounds and odors; it also reduces the spread of fire, smoke, and contaminants.
A Multifan Solution
LEED standards and increasing indoor air quality (IAQ) problems in high-rise buildings have encouraged my company, Retrotec, to develop equipment and procedures for testing high-rise buildings for air leakage. However, testing a whole building at once would require blowing massive quantities of air from one or two ground level doorways to pressurize all the upper floors. By the time the air flow reached the upper floors through the stairwells, some of the pressure would be lost, causing inaccurate readings.
A 25-unit building will have a volume of about 250,000 cubic feet. If the CFM at 50 Pa is 20,000, then the ACH is 4.8. At least 20,000 CFM of air is required from a fan or fans to test for this level of leakage—well above the ability of standard residential door fans.
The solution we came up with is to test each floor individually. Retrotec's new 2 horsepower commercial fans are powerful enough to test an entire floor, yet weigh little more than residential door fans. They are normally powered by a 120 volt 20 amp circuit but can take 240 volts from a dryer or stove outlet as well. Fans will auto switch between voltages. In some commercial applications or in foreign countries, it is useful to be able to use either voltage. Unlike residential fans, these fans can use 50 Hz or 60 Hz without slowing down.
To measure leakage on multiple floors, each floor must be held at exactly the same pressure; but adjusting a fan on one floor affects the pressure on another. Retrotec's new digital gauge solves that problem with a built- in PID controller that automatically adjusts each fan separately to any set pressure, such as 50 Pa or 75 Pa.
In our test setup, all the controls and gauges are set up in one central location. Fans are controlled via Ethernet cables that can be more than 100 feet long. This allows the operator to be positioned as advantageously as possible. Readings can be monitored to ensure that the required test pressure is reached on each floor. Since each fan is separately measuring each floor, construction and/or setup problems exclusive to one floor can be quickly spotted.
Which Direction to Measure?
At Retrotec, we strongly recommend that multifamily, high-rise buildings be tested in both the positive (pressurized) and the negative (depressurized) directions. Large static pressures caused by wind, stack effect, and HVAC systems can produce offsets that cannot be properly accounted for otherwise. Simply subtracting static pressures, as is common practice in house testing, can throw off high-rise readings by 25%. Static pressures can result from pressure shifts or air flow. Static pressure shifts can be subtracted linearly, but static pressures caused by HVAC flows cannot. For example, the air flow required to raise the test pressure from 0 Pa to 1 Pa is 100 CFM, but the flow required to go from 49 Pa to 50 Pa is only 7 CFM. Clearly, just adding 1 Pa to the test pressure does not compensate for a 1 Pa static pressure if it is induced by air flow and not by a static shift.
Testing in both directions negates static shifts no matter how they are produced, ensuring repeatable results in all weather conditions. If fresh-air supply fans or exhaust fans are running, testing only one way can skew results. For example, if 20,000 CFM is required to test a building with exhaust fans off, and if 4,000 CFM of exhaust is then turned on, the depressurization flow required to achieve 50 Pa of pressure will be only 16,000 CFM, whereas pressurization flow will be 24,000 CFM. Testing only in the depressurization direction will yield a result of 16,000 CFM at 50 Pa, versus 24,000 CFM at 50 Pa in pressurization—an increase of 50%! Testing both ways and averaging the result will eliminate most of this, but it will still result in an excess measurement of 5%–10% envelope leakage. (To get the most accurate measurement of envelope leakage, it is best is to shut off and seal ventilation fans.)
Another problem with measuring leaks in multifamily buildings is the limited time available to perform tests, as people move about the building. Our rapid setup panels, which install quickly and can be removed in seconds, solve this problem. The panels allow operators to pass through a 24-inch port without removing the panel.
Leakage from one floor of most high-rise buildings can be simplified to one leak to the outdoors and one leak to the floor above. Flow from a floor must either end up outdoors, or move to other floors or stairwells. Using this simplified model, you can measure the major leakage pathways in an apartment building, using three door fans.
Building Setup and Testing Operation
Normally, when a pressurization test is performed, an extra tube must be connected to the gauge to ensure that the flow pressure is referenced to the front of the fan, in order that the pressure drop across the flow device is correct. This is not necessary with the Retrotec digital gauge, because when it sees a positive building pressure on channel A, it automatically subtracts room pressure from flow pressure. Measurements can be made in either direction, with any number of the fans running, and the results will be correct every time.
Preparations for this air leakage test are the same as those for any door fan test. Extra care must be taken to ensure that all openings to the outdoors are closed, and that nobody uses the elevators. Best results are achieved after hours, when all the tradespeople have left, since the more often doors are opened, the longer it takes to get accurate results. Continuously operating exhaust systems should preferably be shut down and sealed off, but if this is not possible, reasonable results can be achieved so long as the test is performed in both directions—pressurized and depressurized (see "Which Direction to Measure?").
All three digital gauges must be set up on one floor in order to make sense of the results. Setting up the gauges in a stairwell has the added advantage that the operator can change fan ranges and flow direction faster without needing to use the elevator or the stairs. All ports of the gauges must be connected to areas outside the stairwell; otherwise, the high air velocities will skew the readings.
If the building is occupied, post at least one person on each floor to ensure that no one tampers with the fan, or is endangered by it. Make sure that no one opens an elevator door, a window, or a hallway door. Check these openings before taking final readings to ensure
that they stay closed.
Measure Leakage with Multiple Fans
In order to illustrate how to measure air leakage in a multifamily building, here is an example (also, see "Testing a Building in California," p. 38, as an example of a real building that achieved LEED certification.) In the following example, door fan 1 is set up on floor E to pressurize and then depressurize the floor to 50 Pa (see Figure 1). Air moves outdoors through a hole that we call Eo and to the floor below air leaks out through a hole we call Du. In this example, air flow through Eo + Du equals 6,600 CFM at 50 Pa under pressurization but only 5,400 CFM at 50 Pa under depressurization. The average is 6,000 CFM at 50 Pa. When results are averaged at the same test pressure, most errors drop out, allowing us to measure the net pathways. (In this example, all further results are shown for testing in both directions.)
Adding door fan 2 neutralizes the flow through Du, allowing us to measure the leakage from floor E to the outdoors as well as the leakage from floor E to floor D (see Figure 2). The same 50 Pa static pressure is established on floors E and D, neutralizing the flow between floors. Now door fan 1 measures an average air flow of 5,000 CFM between floor E and the outdoors. Slab leakage, Du, is calculated by subtracting Eo (5,000 CFM) from the previously measured Eo + Du (6,000 CFM), yielding 1,000 CFM for Du. This is the leakage between floors D and E.
Using three fans makes it dramatically simpler to measure envelope leakage to the outdoors. Instead of having to make many measurements and then subtract floor-to-floor leakage to arrive at this value, we can measure leakage to the outside for floors E and D directly, using door fans 1 and 2 respectively, while we use fan 3 to eliminate the flow between floors C and D (see Figure 3). Repeating this process, we move door fan 1 to floor B to eliminate the air flow between floor C and floor B. Then door fan 3 is used to measure leakage to the outside on floor C (see Figure 4). The final step is to move door fan 2 to floor A and make measurements there. In this way, both leakage to the outdoors on each floor and floor-to-floor leakages can be quickly measured. Measuring whole-building leakage to the outdoors is a simple matter of adding Ao + Bo + Co + Do + Eo in this example.
Currently, LEED certification requires that only envelope leakage to the outdoors be measured, but leakage through the slab affects both indoor air quality and the stack pressures that increase energy loss. To date, measuring interior leakage has been complicated and time consuming. It is extremely valuable to be able to measure this leakage easily, and with no extra effort. If one floor is leaking more air than the others, it may indicate a problem peculiar to that particular floor. We also learn the floor-to-floor leakage, which helps us identify indoor pollution transmission routes. This is useful for solving cigarette smoke and cooking odor problems so prevalent in multifamily buildings.
Colin Genge is the president of Retrotec Energy Innovations, Ltd.
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Visit www.retrotec.com or phone (604)732-0142 for more details about the equipment and procedures used to measure air leakage in multifamily buildings.
Testing a Building in California
My company, Indoor Environmental Engineering, a ventilation and indoor air quality consulting firm located in San Francisco, performed building envelope air leakage tests in a four-story multifamily building. The first floor is an unconditioned parking garage. Floors 2, 3, and 4 include 36 apartments. We installed a Retrotec 2 horsepower fan in the stairwell door opening to the common hallway on each of the three residential floors. We propped open a door from the stairwell to the outdoors and doors at the bottom and top of the stairwell. All apartment doors to the common hallway were propped open. All the windows and doors to outside were closed, and the ventilation Z-ducts that provide a sound-attenuated opening to the outside were closed. All the intermittent operating fan systems were turned off, and all the constant operating fan systems (such as the kitchen and bathroom central exhaust fans) were kept operational.
We tested the building in both the pressurization and the depressurization directions. During the pressurization test we were able to achieve a pressure of 24 Pa. The air flow rates at this pressure were adjusted for a 50 Pa building pressure as follows: Flow, Q, is equal to the pressure to the power of n, times a constant, C. When a series of test points are taken and curve fit to calculate the values of n and C, we discover that n is usually about 0.65. In this test, where one point was taken, n was assumed to be 0.65, allowing for the calculation of C, which then allows us to calculate air flow at 50 Pa. For example, using the above equation, a measured air leakage flow of 5,000 CFM at a pressure of 24 Pa is extrapolated to a flow of 8,060 CFM at 50 Pa. It is easy then to calculate ACH using the leakage air flow at 50 Pa divided by the volume of the tested building.
The average ACH50 was 5 (it was 5.3 on the second floor, 4.7 on the third floor, and 4.8 on the fourth floor). During depressurization, we were able to achieve a pressure of 34 Pa. The flow rates of air at this pressure were adjusted for a 50 Pa building pressure, again assuming a flow exponent of 0.65. The average ACH50 was 3.3 (5.7 on the second floor, 1.4 on the third floor, and 2.7 on the fourth floor). The average of the pressurization and depressurization ACH50 tests was 4.1 (5.5 on the second floor, 3.0 on the third floor, and 3.7 on the fourth floor).
The requirements for LEED for Homes (V1.11A, EA 3. Air Infiltration in IECC Climate Zones 5–7) are
Good Envelope (prerequisite), equal to or less than 5 ACH50.
Better Envelope (2 points), equal to or less than 3.5 ACH50.
Best Envelope (3 points), equal to or less than 2 ACH50.
Thus, this multifamily building earned the prerequisite Good Envelope rating. These data also indicate that there is significantly more envelope air leakage on the second floor than there is on the other floors.
—Francis J. (Bud) Offermann
Bud Offerman is president of Indoor Environmental Engineering (www.IEE-SF.com), where he directs an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists, chemists, and mechanical engineers in indoor air quality building investigations and healthy building design projects.
For more information:
Visit www.retrotec.com or phone (604)732-0142 for more details about the equipment and procedures used to measure air leakage in multifamily buildings.
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Henrietta's War: News From the Home Front 1939–1942. By Joyce Dennys. Bloomsbury USA, 176 pp., $14, paperback.
By Janice Harayda
During World War II, Joyce Dennys expressed her frustrations as the wife of a small-town doctor in Devon by writing a series of light, amusing sketches for a British tabloid. Her pieces took the form of fictionalized letters to a childhood friend, a middle-aged colonel on duty in France, and became so popular that a publisher collected some of them in Henrietta's War and its sequel, Henrietta Sees It Through.
Bloomsbury USA reissued the first of the two volumes last year, and its timing couldn't have been better. Henrietta's War helps to satisfy an American hunger for epistolary tales fostered by The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's 2008 bestseller. Dennys's book also reflects the influence of E. M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady, a modern classic that has had a modest revival since The New Yorker published an appreciation of its author in 2005.
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About the author: Dennys studied at the Exeter College of Art and illustrated Henrietta's Warwith witty line drawings in a style reminiscent of those of the New Yorker cartoonist Helen Hokinson. An unsigned introduction to the book says that Dennys invented all the characters except Henrietta and her husband, her daughter, and her dog.
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Janice Harayda is an award-winning critic and journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour and the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. You can follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
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Hold on to summer, families! I always panic this time of year. I'm just not ready for summer to be over. Although I haven't had a lazy summer in decades, I still hold tight to the fantasy of three playful months dedicated to fun. This year, to make things worse, stores have been pushing back-to-school sales since July 5 because kids now go back to the classroom mid-August.
Here are some tips to help you hold on strong to summer:
Every Friday in August: Free outdoor films!
Bring your blankets, low-slung camping chairs, and popcorn to watch movies outdoors, in the park, under the stars! We worked with the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival to put together five nights of great animated films (Bolt, Puss in Boots, How to Train your Dragon and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) plus some super creative shorts from Pixar and independent filmmakers from around the world. All films are kid-oriented (rated either G or PG) but are still fun for adults. And, they are free!
Every Sunday in August: Andell Family Sundays
Riffing on "dog days of summer" we've got Dragon Days of summer! From 12:30 to 3:30 on Sundays in August families can make dragon puppets out of Chinese take-out boxes, design royal dragon badges, and cool down from the August heat in LACMA's gallery dedicated to dragons! (Don't worry: only one of the dragons is fire-breathing.) Go dragon-spotting on your own or join an interactive tour with one of our Gallery Educators to learn about these mythological beasts featured in works of art from Asia and Europe. Free for NexGen members!
Labor Day: The Last Day of Summer!
Brighten up. We've planned a fun way to spend the end of summer. September 3 is Target Free Holiday Monday which means free general admission for everyone, live music, tours, and more! Be sure to check out the colorful and innovative Mola textiles from Panama either on-your-own or on an interactive tour with a gallery educator. You and your kids will love the designs featuring a mix of pop culture (Felix the Cat!), politics, and advertising slogans. Plus, the combinations of the different fabrics are stunning. And, if another summer has passed and you (still) didn't get that Caribbean vacation, you can dance and sway to the reggae and calypso beats of Panamanian musician Rogelio Mitchell. He and his friends will perform sets at 12:30 and 2:45 pm on the museum's plaza with tunes that will transport you, make you smile, and help you hold on to summer perhaps a bit longer!
Karen Satzman
Director of Youth and Family Programs


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Last Sunday I ran the 72 mile High Sierra Trail from Whitney Portal to Crescent Meadow in 15h46m starting at 3:19 am and finishing at 7:05 pm, a new FKT (previous mark was 18h39m). It was a great experience in an immensely scenic region of the High Sierra. A special thanks goes to Joel Lanz who helped with the car shuttle and made the whole adventure possible. Complete photo album here.
The High Sierra Trail is a masterpiece of Sequoia National Park traveling from the iconic giant sequoias to the highest point in the lower 48, and passing through some of the most stunning scenery in the Sierra Nevada Mountains en route. The trail stretches 61 miles from Crescent Meadows to the summit of Mount Whitney. As a practical matter, the trail is 72 miles since it takes another 11 miles to reach the Whitney Portal trailhead from the summit. The High Sierra Trail shares the same trail as the John Muir Trail from Wallace Creek to the summit of Mount Whitney leading some to speculate that the High Sierra Trail ends at the Wallace Creek junction, but the summit plaque on Whitney and the High Sierra Trail sign at Crescent Meadows prove that the High Sierra Trail indeed ends at Whitney's summit. While the trail is traditionally done from west to east, for adventure running, the preferred direction is east to west due to a net loss of around 1,600 feet, and more importantly, the biggest climb of the day up Mount Whitney (6,200ft+ elevation gain) is completed first thing on fresh legs.
I was lucky to snag two day use permits for the Whitney zone on Friday afternoon so on Saturday Joel and I drove down to Lone Pine and picked them up. In the afternoon we did a short hike to the Cottonwood Lakes (~11,000 ft) below Mount Langley for helpful (albeit brief) acclimatization. It was gorgeous up there and I look forward to returning to explore more of the lakes and summit Mt. Langley. Sunday I woke up at 2:35 a.m. and departed Whitney Portal at 3:19 a.m. I got into a decent rhythm working the switchbacks all the way to Trail Crest. I reached the summit at 6:20 a.m. just as the sun was rising and it was amazing to watch the peaks and cliffs illuminate in orange – Sierra light at its best.
After a few photos and congratulating a couple who had just become engaged, I descended the slopes back to the junction. Oddly, I felt the altitude much more on the descent to Crabtree meadow, but the spectacular scenery was a good distraction. Fortunately, on the stretch between Crabtree and Wallace Creek I was able dial into my nutrition and hydration plan so I started feeling better. I got into a nice rhythm descending into Kern Canyon and then running the 9.5 miles of awesome rolling single track down the canyon. I saw several bears in the canyon, including a mother bear and two cubs that literally jumped right in front of me. This caused momentary panic, especially when momma bear gave me a little grunt and stare, but I made some noise and she calmly directed her cubs up the hill away from the trail.
The steepest part of the route, and the crux in my opinion, is the long climb out of lower Kern Canyon to the Chagoopa Plateau below the Kaweah Range. All told, this climb entails nearly 4,500 ft of cumulative elevation gain and the first part is quite steep on a hot south facing slope. The black diamond ultra light z-poles were extremely helpful on this section and I soon found myself on the plateau with a pleasant breeze. Most of Chagoopa is uninteresting terrain with open forest and no views. It is only until one essentially reaches the top of the plateau does the Great Western Divide and Kaweahs come into view. The scenery becomes more impressive and inspiring on the descent into the Big Arroyo Valley.
Upper Big Arroyo is amazing with a wide open tundra setting in the valley juxtaposed with sharp granite cliffs and peaks in the background. I met Jim Castleberry on this stretch and he was kind enough to take the photo of me immediately below. After Jim's trip, he sent me a message: "This past Sunday I was hiking on the High Sierra Trail and took your picture on the east side of Kaweah Gap. Because of the remote location, when I heard the sound of feet running on the gravel surface behind me, it was a true WTF? moment. I was too shocked at the time to give you proper encouragement. Hope the rest of your run went well. You seemed to be in good condition when I saw you."
The panoramic views continue up to 10,700 ft Kaweah Gap, the top of the last major climb of the route. I soaked in the views from Kaweah Gap and then continued down familiar territory to stunning Precipice Lake and Hamilton Lakes. This section is also one of the most scenic in the entire High Sierra and I couldn't resist making several stops to take photos. While taking over 100 photos certainly cost me some time, photography is a big part of my enjoyment both during and after the adventure run. I felt there was no need to run "head down" the whole way at this stage of the trail's FKT evolution.
I heard that legendary rock climber Peter Croft was staying at Hamilton Lakes to scope out a new route on the Angel Wings, the biggest rock wall in Sequoia National Park. As I passed by his party's campsite, they asked me where I was coming from and gave words of encouragement. I wish I got his autograph! While the last 16 miles of the route is not without some climbing, there is also a lot of runnable terrain. I felt decent and was able to run a good chunk of the way from Kaweah Gap covering the last 20 miles in about 3:45 minutes. This was my first run over 50 miles ever and all things considered I felt good at the finish. It was great to see Joel at Crescent Meadows and give the High Sierra Trail sign a hug! Complete photo album here.
- Whitney Portal 0:00:00 (3:19 a.m.)
- Outpost Camp 0:53:06
- Trail Crest 2:21:54
- Whitney Summit 3:01:15
- Depart Summit 3:06:23
- Crabtree Meadow 4:45:58
- Wallace Creek 5:36:57
- Junction Meadow 6:18:50
- Kern Hot Springs 7:33:08
- Lower Kern Canyon 7:56:42
- Junction in Arroyo 10:53:22
- Kaweah Gap 11:45:53
- Bearpaw Meadow 13:41:30
- Crescent Meadows 15:46:22 (7:05 pm)
- Pre-run: 680 calories (2x bars, 1 banana)
- En route: 3,200 calories (7x150cal First Endurance EFS drink mix, bars, shot bloks, gels)
- Post-run: First Endurance Ultragen cappuccino
- La Sportiva C-Lite 2.0
- Ultimate Direction Wasp pack and Fastdraw plus hand holder
- Black Diamond Ultra Distance pole
- Petzl Tikka XP 2 headlamp
- Rudy Project Rydon II Sunglasses
- North Face Better Than Naked jacket
- Injinji socks
- Canon Powershot elph 100 hs
Complete photo album here.


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Google is prepping to launch a cloud-based notetaking service to compete with Evernote and Simplenote, according to a sighting by AndroidPolice. Google briefly went live with a service called Keep that appeared to be designed for ubiquitous content capture and integration with the company's cloud storage service, Drive.
Google Keep bears some similarity to the retired Google Notebook, a capturing service for collecting "research and personal notes" including text, images, and links. Notebook also allowed users to share their finds. The service was discontinued in 2009, and Evernote even offered a tool to import Google Notebooks back in the day.
Google Keep will present an interface that lets users create notes with checklist items, text, or images inside. The notes can be titled and color-coded, but little other functionality is discernible from the screenshots. TechCrunch points out that Google accidentally outed Keep last July in a Google+ screenshot that included a "save to Google Keep" option.
Services like Simplenote, Microsoft's OneNote, Springpad, and Evernote continue to grow in popularity for their ease of capture of text, photos, audio, and video, as well as their ability to make that content available across mobile, desktop, and Web interfaces (though they aren't without their problems). Google currently lacks a service that offers this functionality. You may resort to e-mailing yourself everything, but there could be a better way. The slip may indicate that Google is close to an official launch, so we'll watch and wait.


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This isn't likely to make too much sense if you haven't read Infinite Jest, and it may also contain mild IJ spoilers. I offer it more as a set of idle observations than as any sort of thesis.
In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, we meet womanizer Orin Incandenza, about whom I wrote the following a few years ago:
A bit more on Orin. His name can be switched around to "iron," "noir," and "orni," which, this last, makes me think of ornithology. He plays football for the Cardinals and is actually made to don fake wings (I think) and like a jetpack and fly down onto the field earlier in the book. Then a bird falls out of the sky into his apartment's pool (oddly reminiscent of the end of Barton Fink, starring John Turturro, whom I peg as a shoo-in for playing JOI and/or JOI's father in a movie adaptation of Infinite Jest). Then, on page 294, we have Orin engaging Joelle "entirely through stylized repetitive motions," making me think of the mating dances of birds.
Orin has a habit of tracing the infinity sign with his finger on the flanks of the girls he has bedded. Like Orin, Slothrop traces a mathematical sign as he sows his oats, though in his case, it's a Poisson distribution scrawled over a map of London.
And like Orin, Slothrop is frequently associated with birds, especially in the pastoral section 1.4, in which he appears in the company of an owl, girls called Wrens, peacocks, and hummingbirds and in which he sports an erection (his "cock," if we want to stretch the bird motif a bit) as a rocket explodes. This section also happens to deal pretty heavily in the contrast between the earth and the sky, a dichotomy the sky-bound but (if I recall correctly) acrophobic Orin also contemplates.
Both men sport a very special appendage, and both are subject to paranoia. As Orin begins to fear that he's being followed and ultimately has his fears confirmed and culminating in his being taken prisoner, so Slothrop begins to feel as if he's being watched, and as if his cubicle is a trap (early in 1.15). Also probably not significant but certainly attention-getting for me was the reference early in 1.15 to "Enfields" — a name whose singular form will resonate with readers of Wallace's novel.
Unlike Orin, Slothrop at least writes nice letters home to his mother.


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Fed up with the poor quality of so many books from major publishers? This is the fifth and last in a series of posts this week on great small or independent presses that have maintained high literary standards despite the Mitch Albom-ization of America.
Who might publish James Joyce's Ulysses today if the major firms rejected it?
By Janice Harayda
Suppose that James Joyce were trying to find a American publisher for Ulysses today and the major publishers had turned it down. Who might publish it?
One answer is: Dalkey Archive Press www.dalkeyarchive.com. Critics have used words like "experimental" and "avant-garde" to describe the firm, based in Normal, Ill. But director John O'Brien prefers "subversive" because so many of its titles go against the literary or artistic grain.
An outgrowth of the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Dalkey Archive publishes many translations of books by authors who might not otherwise find an American audience. Its noteworthy titles include Everyday Life by Lydie Salvayre, the daughter of refufees from the Spanish Civil War, who was raised in southern France www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/. And it has just published a new edition of Philip Wylie's Generation of Vipers, a scathing critique of the American way of life that was one of the defining books of the postwar era.
One-Minute Book Reviews was the seventh-ranked book review site on Google www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Reviews_and_Criticism/as of Sept. 6, 2007. It does not accept books, galleys, catalogs, print or electronic press releases or other promotional materials from publishers.
Tomorrow: A review of and Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Sara Gruen's No. 1 bestseller, Water for Elephants.
(c) 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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I had originally planned to call this "Death and All His Friends" which seemed so clever and eerily appropriate. And then I realized it was the title of a Coldplay album and decided that all my street cred would be lost (even though I do like the disc).
I was also considering talking about omens in the book, but that has been well covered by Daryl (I do have some specific omens in this post). And finally I considered revisiting religion since Ahab has the audacity to baptize his harpoon in Satan's name (and there's a Starbuck as Jesus motif going on). But really what could be more right than death?
I had noticed throughout the book that there was very little death (except for the whales of course). This is despite the opening scene in the church with all of the grave markers and Ishmael slowly reading them all. In fact, despite Pip's falling over and Queequeg's "fatal illness" no one had died at all aboard the Pequod.
Then in this final week's reading–which was really fantastic. I can't get over how gripped I was by the build up and the whole chase sequence–death starts to poke its head out of the waters.
The first death is very cryptic, and possibly not even real (?). In Chapter 126 (The Life-Buoy) we learn of one of the crew (who, strangely, remains unnamed) who fell overboard:
At sun-rise this man went from his hammock to his mast-head at the fore…he had not been long at his perch, when a cry was heard – a cry and a rushing – and looking up, they saw a falling phantom in the air; and looking down, a little tossed heap of white bubbles in the blue of the sea.
The life-buoy – a long slender cask – was dropped from the stern, where it always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it…and the studded iron- bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom.
And thus the first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast to look out for the White Whale, on the White Whale's own peculiar ground; that man was swallowed up in the deep (516).
And from that anonymous death, things really escalate.
Of course, there is the obvious omen (I couldn't resist) of using a coffin as a life-buoy, but the very next encounter is with The Rachel. Unlike all of the other ships that the Pequod has encountered (all with varying degrees of success) none has suffered a fate as wrenching as this one: the captain's own 12-year-old boy is lost at sea, and he had to choose his other son's life over this one. And the Rachel has been looking for him (and his boat) for a day already…it's hopeless. That whole boat's crew is dead.
This visit is followed by a visit from The Delight. The Delight has encountered the White Whale and has suffered terribly for it
"I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only that one I bury; the rest were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb" (532).
As ships near the white whale, death cannot be far. (In fact the most successful ship, the Bachelor–which was laden with sperm–didn't even think the White Whale was real). Then, just to rub it in a little, as the Pequod sails away from The Delight, she is
not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea; not so quick, indeed, but that some of the flying bubbles might have sprinkled her hull with their ghostly baptism (532).
Given this portent, and the seeming snowball of deaths, the actual Pequod deaths do not come fast and furious. On the first day of the chase, everyone is spared. On the second day of the chase, only Fedallah is killed [must…not…mention…prophecies]. This wounds Ahab terribly, but he manages to press on.
Of course, on that third day everyone dies, so I guess the trickle became a gusher. But it's fascinating to see how delicately Melville handles this mass death. Even in that last scene when the Pequod sinks, only a few crewmen are mentioned by name–and Tashtego is still engaged in an activity when the boat goes down: "Tashtego's mast-head hammer remained suspended in his hand" (563). No one is said to suffer (Pip suffered far more on the page during his ordeals), and it ends very quickly.
What I found most interesting is that as a reader, I was picking up on all of the omens, the prophecies, the greater and greater deaths, and yet, like Ahab I read nothing into them. I was sure that the ending…well, what? I didn't think it could be a happy ending (whatever that might mean), I wasn't even sure if I thought Ahab would be victorious (I wasn't holding my breath for him). And yet, I never imagined that the whole ship would sink.
And even though this ending happens remarkably quickly (the ending scene is the last three pages of a 469 page book (the Norton edition)), it doesn't feel like what my friends and I have called The Star Trek ending–[Five minutes till the end of the show, Captain, shall we release the dilithium crystal and huzzah!–we're all safe (I like Star Trek (especially TNG) but it's funny how many of their shows end like this)]. Obviously, Moby Dick doesn't have that ending because in everyone dies, but what I mean is, the ending feels like a natural, almost inevitable end. I was shocked–completely shocked–when I read that everyone died. And yet in retrospect it is the only reasonable outcome.
I am still really surprised that Queequeg dies. I realize there's no way to save him and have it be believable, but still. It's also weird how little is made of Queequeg going down too. [Can you imagine is he somehow managed to get Ishmael and Queequeg rescued on the coffin together–it's sequel city baby!].
I mentioned in my other post how beautiful I think the Epilogue is, and I will do so here as well. It's tidy and elegant and unlike many epilogues which sort of tidy up loose threads a little too neatly, this one pulls together various ideas (the coffin, The Rachel) and uses them to give Ishmael a fully believable rescue.
When you reach the end, you realize that this story is something of a eulogy; a whale tale told to someone about the death of his shipmates. This gives the entire book an angle that didn't exist before. Were I the kind of person who did this sort of thing (I'm not) I would re-read the book with this new information in mind to try to see if the book reads differently knowing the outcome.
I am really very pleased for having read this book. And I've more than very pleased to have been able to write these posts here. I hope they've been interesting. Thanks for reading.